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Casualties and Medical Statistics published in 1931. [184] [185] was the final volume of the Official Medical History of the War, gives British Empire, including the Dominions, for Army losses by cause of death. Total war dead in combat theaters from 1914 to 1918 were 876,084, which included 418,361 killed, 167,172 died of wounds, 113,173 died ...
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
The Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance and the Franco-Russian Alliance, was not an alliance of mutual defense and so Britain was free to make its own foreign policy decisions in 1914. As British Foreign Office Official Eyre Crowe minuted, "The fundamental fact, of course, is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate ...
Diplomatic history of World War I; The Central Powers. Dual Alliance (Germany and Austria-Hungary) Triple Alliance (1882) (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) The Allies. Franco-Russian Alliance (1894) Entente Cordiale between France and the British; Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907; Triple Entente; Treaty of London, 1839, about the neutrality of ...
Self-made with figures from World War I Casualties Originally created by User:Dna-Dennis, and released into the public domain. User:Wereon created the vectorization (svg) of the original png-version. User:Dna-Dennis updated it October 16, 2007, changing colors and adding shades to give the chart a more subtle feel than the png-version. Author
The Entente Cordiale between Britain and France in 1905 included a secret agreement that left the northern coast of France and the English Channel to be defended by the British Royal Navy, and the separate "entente" between Britain and Russia (1907) formed the so-called Triple Entente. However, the Triple Entente did not, in fact, force Britain ...
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll. [224]
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [245] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes between 9 and 11 million military personnel, with an ...